Researchers from three institutions are uniting under a $1.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to boost the juice of solar cells. Researchers will design new semiconductor structures that will overcome the current limit on efficiency of most solar cells.
Voices carry, reflect off objects and create echoes. Most people rarely hear the echoes; instead they only process the first sound received. For the hard of hearing, though, being in an acoustically challenging room can be a problem. For them, echoes carry. Ever listen to a lecture recorded in a large room?
A 13-member research team led by a University of Oregon medical scientist has found a gene likely responsible for Fuchs corneal dystrophy, an inheritable genetic disorder and leading cause of corneal transplant operations.
Two University of Oregon biologists and a professor of architecture will lead a scientific journey into what may be the most underexplored frontier on the planet -- the closed, indoor environment where people in industrialized countries spend an estimated 90 percent of their time.
The University of Oregon's Climate Leadership Initiative, in partnership with the Oregon Coalition of Local Health Officials and public health organizations around the state, have issued two new guidebooks aimed at helping health-related agencies and organizations cope with climate change.
Members of an international organization that first met more than two decades ago to discuss new ideas for research on the evolution of human behavior -- the Human Behavior and Evolution Society -- will converge on the University of Oregon June 16 for their 22nd annual meeting.
Americans want self-respect, and that desire has risen significantly in the last two decades, say marketing researchers at the University of Oregon. Meanwhile, the needs for both security and a sense of belonging have declined in the last 30 years.
Male college students, especially those who had done well in their high-school classes, are much more likely than females to drop out when placed on academic probation after their first year in school, according to a researcher now at the University of Oregon.
When students enter college, they either have it or they don't. Which side of the digital divide they fall on can shape their identities and what route they take into careers. Research looked at technology knowledge of 500 undergraduate students and how skills they brought from high school impacted early college work.
A truth in science is that a theory may fail or succeed initially and be shot down later. Now put yourself in the shoes of elementary school students faced with stating an idea and then facing potential criticism, even ridicule, of others. This summer, the nation’s elementary school science teachers are being told to read about the issue.
There's not likely to be any MTV footage of Cody Wollitz's spring break, but he and 49 other University of Oregon students are still expecting it to be one to remember. The students, divided into four groups, will leave Saturday for separate community-based, service-learning experiences in rural southeastern Oregon, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.
Developing a set of core content standards to prepare high school students with the academic foundation and skills necessary to succeed on any college campus is the goal of a new initiative at the University of Oregon. Specifically targeted are mathematics and English, as well as a set of career-oriented two-year certificate programs.
A new study suggests a trend toward developing hyperactivity among typically developing elementary-school-aged siblings of autistic preschoolers and supports the notion that mothers of young, autistic children experience more depression and stress than mothers with typically developing children.
Twenty billion pieces of DNA in 100 small fish have opened the eyes of biologists studying evolution. After combining new technologies, researchers now know many of the genomic regions that allowed an ocean-dwelling fish to adapt to fresh water in several independently evolved populations.
University of Oregon team discovers that separate brain pathways process the start and end of what we hear.
University of Oregon authors focus on key perspectives and experiences, provide roadmap for changes.
Using new technology developed in his University of Oregon lab, chemist Andrew H. Marcus and his doctoral student Eric N. Senning have captured what they describe as well-orchestrated, actin-driven, mitochondrial movement within a single cell.
Cascade ProDrug Inc. and the University of Oregon have completed an agreement that gives the company exclusive ownership of technology to make medicines that turn on in oxygen-starved tissues. The deal could lead to improved treatments for cancer and other diseases marked by excessive cell growth.
It is the consistency of room-temperature butter, fits easily into two outstretched hands and contains a galaxy's worth of neurons. It is the human brain and the focus of a DVD -- "Changing Brains: Effects of Experience on Human Development" -- produced at the University of Oregon.
A behavioral intervention program developed under a federal grant in the mid-1990s at the University of Oregon, already in widespread use, has scored robust improvements among at-risk elementary students in the predominantly minority Albuquerque, N.M., school district.
As President Obama visits Asia and topics include the U.S. military presence in Okinawa and other locations, Mark Gillem is available to provide information about land use decisions by the U.S. military.
A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease. A five-member team of researchers from University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry report that pentamidine might be adapted to counter genetic splicing defects in RNA that lead to type 1 myotonic dystrophy.
OK, it takes two for human reproduction, and now it seems that plants and animals that can rely on either a partner or go alone by self-fertilization give their offspring a better chance for longer lives when they opt for a mate.
A University of Oregon research team has found that evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked. The findings come from the first rigorous study of reverse evolution at the molecular level.
Chemists and biologists at the University of Oregon have successfully demonstrated that specially synthesized boron compounds are readily accepted in biologically active enzymes, a move that, they say, is a proof of concept that could lead to new drug design strategies.
Being a victim of sexual assault and seeking help is difficult for anyone, but when the victim is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer (LGBTQ) the thought of reporting a crime may well be laced with added layers of uncertainty and mistrust, according to a study in Oregon.
"That blasted siren. I can't focus." That reaction to undesired distraction may signal a person's low working-memory capacity, according to a new study. Based on a study of 84 students divided into four separate experiments, University of Oregon researchers found that students with high memory storage capacity were clearly better able to ignore distractions and stay focused on their assigned tasks.
College freshmen may want to take notes on a new study: Those who keep too much of their emotions to themselves may find it difficult to build friendships. While suppressing emotions often is understandable and appropriate, carrying the practice too far creates a vicious cycle where trusting others, and being trusted by others, becomes more difficult.
Two University of Oregon-led studies provide insights on a fast-growing positive-reinforcement behavioral program for improving the social and academic outcomes for schools. Both studies on School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) appeared in the July issue of the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions.
Applying biological molecules from cell membranes to the surfaces of artificial materials is opening peepholes on the very basics of cell-to-cell interaction. Two recently published papers by a University of Oregon biophysicist and colleagues suggest that putting lipids and other cell membrane components on manufactured surfaces could lead to new classes of self-assembling materials for use in precision optics, nanotechnology, electronics and pharmaceuticals.
A 17-member team has found what may be the smoking gun of a much-debated proposal that a cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago ripped through North America and drove multiple species into extinction.
Ask middle-school students if they are popular or make friends easily, they likely will depend on social comparisons with their peers for an answer. Such reliance on the perceived opinions of others, or reflected self-appraisals, has long been assumed, but new evidence supporting this claim has now been found in the teen brain.
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon will display the special exhibition, "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Art of the Superhero," featuring rare works by some of the most admired artists in the history of superhero comics and graphic novels. The exhibition will run from September to January.
Amid New York City's Chinatown is a quaint park. Yet Elisabeth "Liska" Chan, a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, sees something else. Her eyes peel back the visage of a pleasant recreational area to unveil a 19th-century melting pot of African Americans, Jewish immigrants and Italian refugees.
University of Oregon physicists have successfully landed a one-two punch on a tiny glass sphere, refrigerating it in liquid helium and then dosing its perimeter with a laser beam, to bring its naturally occurring mechanical vibrations to a near standstill. The findings could boost advances in information processing that exploits special quantum properties and in precision-measurements for nanotechnology.
Researchers have identified the locking mechanism that allows some neurons to form synapses to pass along essential information. Mutations of genes that produce a critical cell-adhesion molecule involved in the work were previously linked to autism.
Chinese researchers have unlocked the mechanism of an emerging mind-body technique that produces measurable changes in attention and stress reduction in just five days of practice.
A team of University of Oregon biologists, using fruit flies, has created a way to isolate RNA from specific cells, opening a new window on how gene expression drives normal development and disease-causing breakdowns.
Driving Miranda, a protein in fruit flies crucial to switch a stem cell's fate, is not as complex as biologists thought, according to University of Oregon biochemists. They've found that one enzyme (aPKC) stands alone and acts as a traffic cop that directs which roads daughter cells will take.
Going green with new construction is a good idea, but what about renovating existing structures? Like 20 billion square feet of existing U.S. public schools? Ihab Elzeyadi, a professor of architecture at the University of Oregon, has created a Green Classroom Toolbox for architects and planners.
A database designed to "build community" and reduce barriers when adopting green chemistry has doubled in size in the last two years, its creator told professional colleagues at the national spring meeting of the American Chemical Society.
Effects of climate change projected this century for Oregon's Upper Willamette River Basin, including Eugene-Springfield, will threaten water supplies, buildings, transportation systems, human health, forests, and fish and wildlife, according to a new report.
Next time you have an unlucky encounter with a crab's pinchers, consider that the claw tips may be reinforced with bromine-rich biomaterial 1.5 times harder than acrylic glass and extremely fracture resistant, says a University of Oregon scientist.
People voluntarily pick what information they store in short-term memory. Now, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers can see just what information people are holding in memory based only on patterns of activity in the brain.
Greg Retallack picked up his first fossil as a 6-year-old on a beach in Coledale, Australia. The fossil-- a clam shell -- sparked a lifelong passion for collecting all over the world. Retallack, a University of Oregon geology professor, recently donated most of it to the UO's Museum of Natural and Cultural History.
If nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Oregon will face some $3.3 billion in annual costs, which translates to about 4 percent of annual household income by 2020, according to a report produced for the University of Oregon's Climate Leadership Initiative's Program on Climate Economics by ECONorthwest.
If nothing is done to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Washington is likely to experience some $3.8 billion in associated annual costs -- including $1.3 billion in health related costs alone, according to a report produced for the University of Oregon's Climate Leadership Initiative's Program on Climate Economics by ECONorthwest.
If nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, New Mexico could experience some $3.2 billion in associated costs -- led by wildfires and health-care. This could translate to a tab of 8 percent of annual household income by 2020, according to a report produced for the University of Oregon's Climate Leadership Initiative's Program on Climate Economics by ECONorthwest.
A new study reports that charcoal particles left by wildfires in sediments of 35 North American lake beds don't readily support the theory that comets exploding over the continent 12,900 years ago sparked a cooling period known as the Younger Dryas. However, researchers did find clear links between abrupt climate changes and fire activity during the transition between the last Ice Age and the warm interglacial period that began 11,700 years ago.
Abundant tiny particles of diamond dust exist in sediments dating to 12,900 years ago at six North American sites, adding strong evidence for Earth's impact with a rare swarm of carbon-and-water-rich comets or carbonaceous chondrites, reports a nine-member scientific team.
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